The Board of Directors is composed of the Superintendent and one Board of Education member from each member district. The Board meets twice a year to determine and adopt policies. It elects a 24-member Executive Committee, which exercises governing authority when the Board is not in session.
SCHOOL DISTRICT | SUPERINTENDENT | BOARD REPRESENTATIVE |
| Albuquerque Public Schools | Winston Brooks | Martin Esquivel |
| Anchorage Public Schools | Jim Browder | Jeannie Mackie |
| Atlanta Public Schools | Erroll B. Davis, Jr. | Cecily Harsch-Kinnane |
| Austin Independent School District | Meria Carstarphen | Mark Williams |
| Baltimore City Public Schools | Andres Alonso | Jerrelle Francois |
| Birmingham City Schools | Craig Witherspoon | W.J. Maye, Jr. |
| Boston Public Schools | Carol Johnson | Gregory Groover |
| Bridgeport Public Schools | Paul Vallas | Bob Trefry |
| Broward County Public Schools | Robert Runcie | Laurie Rich Levinson |
| Buffalo City Public Schools | Pamela Brown | Mary Ruth Kapsiak |
| Caddo Parish School District | Gerald Dawkins | Lillian Priest |
| Charleston County Public Schools | Nancy McGinley | Toya Hampton Green |
| Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools | Heath Morrison | Ericka Ellis-Steward |
| Chicago Public Schools | Barbara Byrd-Bennett | Tariq H. Butt |
| Cincinnati Public Schools | Mary Ronan | Eileen Cooper Reed |
| Clark County School District | Dwight Jones | Carolyn Edwards |
| Cleveland Metropolitan School District | Eric Gordon | Denise Link |
| Columbus Public Schools | Gene T. Harris | Carol Perkins |
| Dallas Independent School District | Mike Miles | Adam Medrano |
| Dayton Public Schools | Lori Ward | Ronald Lee |
| Denver Public Schools | Tom Boasberg | Mary Seawell |
| Des Moines Independent Community School District | Thomas Ahart | Teree Caldwell-Johnson |
| Detroit Public Schools | Roy Roberts | Anthony Adams |
| District of Columbia Public Schools | Kaya Henderson | Ted Trabue |
| Duval County Public Schools | Nikolai P. Vitti | Paula Wright |
| East Baton Rouge Parish School System | Bernard Taylor | David Tatum |
| Fort Worth Independent School District | Walter Dansby | Ray Dickerson |
| Fresno Unified School District | Michael E. Hanson | Lindsay Cal Johnson |
| Guilford County Schools | Maurice Green | Kris Cooke |
| Hillsborough County School District | MaryEllen Elia | Candy Olson |
| Houston Independent School District | Terry Grier | Paula Harris |
| Indianapolis Public Schools | Eugene G. White | Mary Busch |
| Jackson Public School District | Cedrick Gray | Kisiah W. Nolan |
| Jefferson County Public Schools | Donna Hargens | Ann V. Elmore |
| Kansas City Missouri School District | R. Stephen Green | Airick Leonard West |
| Little Rock School District | Morris Holmes | Katherine Mitchell |
| Long Beach Unified School District | Christopher Steinhauser | Felton Williams |
| Los Angeles Unified School District | John Deasy | Nury Martinez |
| Memphis City Public Schools | Kriner Cash | Stephanie Gatewood |
| Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools | Jesse Register | JoAnn Brannon |
| Miami-Dade County Public Schools | Alberto Carvalho | Lawrence Feldman |
| Milwaukee Public Schools | Gregory Thornton | Michael Bonds |
| Minneapolis Public Schools | Bernadeia Johnson | Carla Bates |
| New Orleans Public Schools | Stan Smith | Woody Koppel |
| New York City Department of Education | Dennis Walcott | Joan Correale |
| Newark Public Schools | Cami Anderson | Shavar Jeffries |
| Norfolk Public Schools | Samuel King | Linda Horsey |
| Oakland Unified School District | Anthony Smith | Jumoke Hinton Hodge |
| Oklahoma City Public Schools | Karl Springer | Phil Horning |
| Omaha Public Schools | Virginia Moon | Marian Fey |
| Orange County Public Schools | Barbara Jenkins | "Bill" William Sublette |
| School District of Palm Beach County | E. Wayne Gent | Chuck Shaw |
| School District of Philadelphia | William Hite | Robert Archie |
| Pittsburgh Public Schools | Linda Lane | William Isler |
| Portland Public Schools | Carole Smith | Pam Knowles |
| Providence Public Schools | Susan Lusi | Keith Oliveira |
| Richmond Public Schools | Yvonne Brandon | Jeffrey Bourne |
| Rochester City School District | Bolgen Vargas | Malik Evans |
| Sacramento City Unified School District | Jonathan Raymond | Ellyne Bell |
| San Diego Unified School District | William Kowba | John Lee Evans |
| San Franciso Unified School District | Richard Carranza | Norman Yee |
| Santa Ana Unified School District | Thelma Melendez | Rob Richardson |
| Seattle Public Schools | Jose Banda | Harium Martin-Morris |
| St. Louis Public Schools | Kelvin Adams | Rick Sullivan |
| St. Paul Public Schools | Valeria Silva | Jean O'Connell |
| Toledo Public Schools | Jerry Pecko | Brenda Hill |
| Wichita Public Schools | John Allison | Jeff Davis |
